LBC Chit Chat #8 Steve Allen has left the building

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It was disappointing that Nick Ferrari trivialised the government reshuffle by focusing on the cost of the new departments rather than what they have been set up to achieve. I see the changes as bold moves by Rishi Sunak to focus on key areas for future growth, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology being a prime example. Sadly I think Rishi's tenor in Number Ten will be short lived, but he will leave his mark with bold decisions like these.
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FenellaTheWitch said:
The problem isn't core Tories though. They need to appeal to non Tory members and floating voters. I'm not sure it's Rishi's best move.

Good to know Lammy is next week. I'll give that a swerve.
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It looks like David Lammy is covering the whole of next week for James O'Brien (until Wednesday already announced which means he won't be able to attend PMQs), as well as his usual Sunday show. So how will he find time to do his two taxpayer funded jobs of MP for Tottenham and Shadow Foreign Secretary? He is certainly leaving himself open for criticism.
 
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FunkyPhil said:
It was disappointing that Nick Ferrari trivialised the government reshuffle by focusing on the cost of the new departments rather than what they have been set up to achieve. I see the changes as bold moves by Rishi Sunak to focus on key areas for future growth, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology being a prime example. Sadly I think Rishi's tenor in Number Ten will be short lived, but he will leave his mark with bold decisions like these.
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I find Rishi quite an interstesting study.

He is loaded but he does seem genuinely out of touch in a way that Cameron etc would never have come across. Things like not knowing how to use a debit card was just weird. He also came into politics in 2015 and had a bit of meteoric rise but it was all under the chaos and viciousness of Brexit, Boris and Conservative infighting (someone on James O'Brien pointed this out last week). He has still to find himself politically which is weird position to be in as prime minister.

He also doesn't have a mandate from anyone. He didn't even get voted in by the Tory members. He became Prime minister by default so he has no mandate from the party, MP's or the electorate.
 
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FunkyPhil said:
It looks like David Lammy is covering the whole of next week for James O'Brien (until Wednesday already announced which means he won't be able to attend PMQs), as well as his usual Sunday show. So how will he find time to do his two taxpayer funded jobs of MP for Tottenham and Shadow Foreign Secretary? He is certainly leaving himself open for criticism.
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He's such a terrible broadcaster (at least to me), that's what pisses me off. Can't they find someone who is actually trained for the job? ie: A professional broadcaster? OR maybe someone who is trying to break into the industry, a new unknown voice ... ANYONE other than Lammy. As you say, surely he would be better spent spending those 3 hours dealing face-to-face with his constituents who probably have real and pressing issues ... terrible as it all is I very much doubt what's going on in Ukraine (or whatever big news-story is going on) affects your average Joe or Joanna on the ground in Tottenham. To me its just one party political broadcast for The Lammy Party.
 
FunkyPhil said:
It looks like David Lammy is covering the whole of next week for James O'Brien (until Wednesday already announced which means he won't be able to attend PMQs), as well as his usual Sunday show. So how will he find time to do his two taxpayer funded jobs of MP for Tottenham and Shadow Foreign Secretary? He is certainly leaving himself open for criticism.
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I think it's one thing to do LBC at weekends or when Parliament is in recess but he should not be covering for James whilst Parliament is sitting IMO.
Then again I don't like sitting MP's doing radio shows full stop.
 
FenellaTheWitch said:
I think it's one thing to do LBC at weekends or when Parliament is in recess but he should not be covering for James whilst Parliament is sitting IMO.
Then again I don't like sitting MP's doing radio shows full stop.
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Agreed 100%. I actually like David Lammy as a politician but he shouldn't be earning money doing a second job even if parliament's in recess. Being MP for an area like Tottenham should give him enough to do all year round.

Apart from that, it makes it difficult for Starmer to criticise Tories raking in consultancy cash.
 
FunkyPhil said:
It was disappointing that Nick Ferrari trivialised the government reshuffle by focusing on the cost of the new departments rather than what they have been set up to achieve. I see the changes as bold moves by Rishi Sunak to focus on key areas for future growth, the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology being a prime example. Sadly I think Rishi's tenor in Number Ten will be short lived, but he will leave his mark with bold decisions like these.
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It looks like David Lammy is covering the whole of next week for James O'Brien (until Wednesday already announced which means he won't be able to attend PMQs), as well as his usual Sunday show. So how will he find time to do his two taxpayer funded jobs of MP for Tottenham and Shadow Foreign Secretary? He is certainly leaving himself open for criticism.
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Perhaps David Lammy thinks he gets around the second jobs ( for MPs) issue. Being on LBC is in fact his third job.
 
Steve Allen mentioned briefly on his Little Bit Extra podcast this morning that he was due to have a meeting with the boss (Ashley Tabor?) straight after the show, to discuss in detail the RAJARS last week and the latest increase in his listener ratings. It sounded as though he was positively gloating.

I don't know if he said any more on his full show this morning if anyone was listening? I wonder also if he will mention it in tomorrow's show?
 
Redvers36 said:
Perhaps David Lammy thinks he gets around the second jobs ( for MPs) issue. Being on LBC is in fact his third job.
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What's his background? What job(s) has he had before becoming an MP? Sorry, I can't be arsed to check so I won't blame anyone else if they can't either. 😬
 
Confession, I can't stand The Speaker, Sir Lindsey Hoyle ... he's on now going on about how we have to fight Russia, support Ukraine etc. etc. Fair enough, but I thought as Speaker he was supposed to be neutral on this kind of stuff? ps. Obviously he's a vast improvment on whatshisname, the last awful Speaker (who clearly wasn't neutral).
 
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Confession, I can't stand The Speaker, Sir Lindsey Hoyle ... he's on now going on about how we have to fight Russia, support Ukraine etc. etc. Fair enough, but I thought as Speaker he was supposed to be neutral on this kind of stuff? ps. Obviously he's a vast improvment on whatshisname, the last awful Speaker (who clearly wasn't neutral).
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The neutrality point crossed my mind when I heard the piece, Ndrangheta. His defence might be that there is no political divide on the issue of Ukraine as the House is united, but he was still very clearly taking sides.
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dodgerman said:
Agreed 100%. I actually like David Lammy as a politician but he shouldn't be earning money doing a second job even if parliament's in recess. Being MP for an area like Tottenham should give him enough to do all year round.

Apart from that, it makes it difficult for Starmer to criticise Tories raking in consultancy cash.
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I'm with you dodgerman. David Lammy was on with Nick Ferrari earlier wearing his Shadow Foreign Secretary hat and I personally feel he excels at his brief.

I also think he's an excellent broadcaster and enjoy his LBC shows when he's being balanced and objective, but not on days when he sounds like a party political broadcast for the Labour Party and feel the producers should rein him in when he does that.
 
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FunkyPhil said:
The neutrality point crossed my mind when I heard the piece, Ndrangheta. His defence might be that there is no political divide on the issue of Ukraine as the House is united, but he was still very clearly taking sides.
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As I said, after Bercow it would have been be nice to have a speaker that was neutral and boring and who didn't go onto commerical radio or present himself a some whacky bloke who liked parrots. :rolleyes: :cautious: I much prefer Elainor Laing, his deputy.
 
FunkyPhil said:
The neutrality point crossed my mind when I heard the piece, Ndrangheta. His defence might be that there is no political divide on the issue of Ukraine as the House is united, but he was still very clearly taking sides.
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I'm with you dodgerman. David Lammy was on with Nick Ferrari earlier wearing his Shadow Foreign Secretary hat and I personally feel he excels at his brief.

I also think he's an excellent broadcaster and enjoy his LBC shows when he's being balanced and objective, but not on days when he sounds like a party political broadcast for the Labour Party and feel the producers should rein him in when he does that.
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Glad to find a fan of Lammy's policies



I presume he flew there to tell them that.

Also whilst politicians can perhaps present a radio show from time to time surely it would be better at an out of hours time. 10 am to 1 pm is peak time. If there is a foreign policy crisis would Labour have to wait for David Lammy to finish his radio show?
 
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